The court heard the man knew the boy had been unwell for a week, knew he had been falling over frequently, observed the boy’s incontinence with urine and faeces, and trouble with his breathing and did not take him to get medical care.

A man who shared fantasies about drugging children and raping babies has been sentenced to 16 months in a West Australian prison after he was caught up in the same investigation as ex-journalist Ben McCormack.